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Sūtra of Eight Khulils: Analyzing One Manuscript from Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of Tuva

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2021
The article aims to introduce a manuscript of the “Sūtra of Eight Khulils” in Mongolian, part of the collection in Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Tuva Republic. The idea of eight khulils, or eight trigrams, which symbolize eight great elements (fire,
Saglara V. Mirzaeva
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From Nationalism to Transnationalism: The Compilation and Publication of the Puhui Canon (Puhuizang)

open access: yesReligions
The publication of the Puhui Canon began in 1943, was interrupted in 1955, and was ultimately completed in 1998, spanning three significant historical periods: the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan, the Chinese Civil War (1945–1949), and the early ...
Ting Shen
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Translation and Interaction: A New Examination of the Controversy over the Translation and Authenticity of the Śūraṃgama-sūtra

open access: yesReligions, 2022
From the Tang era (618–907) to the present day, controversy over the translation and authenticity of the Chinese version of the Śūraṃgama-sūtra, which appeared at the end of the early Tang, has been ongoing. The scholar-official Fang Rong (d.
Jinhua Jia
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Merit-Making Through Printing, Distributing and Reading Buddhist Canon in the Late Ming Dynasty

open access: yesReligions
In the Chinese Buddhist tradition, copying and printing sacred texts is considered a form of merit-making, or virtuous activity. One reason for the printing and circulation of books in the Buddhist tradition is the belief that one can gain merits.
Darui Long
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Review: The Powers of the Universe by Brian Swimme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay presents a review on Brian Swimme’s 3-DVD set of lecture series in the interdisciplinary field of philosophy, cosmology and consciousness. In the eleven 45-minute episodes of a systematic 9-hour immersive program, a set of 12 intercorrelated ...
ma, Z. G.
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Sleep well! Sleeping practices in Buddhist disciplinary rules [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The present paper gives a detailed analysis of the guidelines on sleeping practices as stipulated in Buddhist monastic disciplinary texts and in Chinese manuals.
Heirman, Ann
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Did Chinese Buddhists translate the old formula ‘him I call a Brahmin’? The reconstruction of Buddhism as the path of nirvāṇa in Early Chinese translations

open access: yesEstudios de Traducción
At first, Chinese translators lacked a unified criterion for interpreting Buddhist scriptures. They employed various phonetic transliterations and gradually adopted etymological approaches as their understanding developed.
Efraín Villamor Herrero
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Veneration of the Buddhist Canon and National Integration in the Yuan Dynasty: Religious Policy and Cultural Convergence

open access: yesReligions
Inheriting a tradition of religious tolerance from the Inner Asian Steppe, the Mongol Yuan Empire elevated Buddhism to a pivotal role in unifying its multiethnic and culturally diverse domain, with Tengriist ideology serving as the political foundation ...
Xiaobai Li
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A Graph Neural Network Approach to Cross‐Cultural Narrative Visualization for Educational Reform

open access: yesEngineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2026.
A BERT‐GNN framework integrated with systemic functional linguistics identifies narrative functions in Thai literary texts and constructs cultural influence graphs for cross‐cultural analysis and digital humanities applications. ABSTRACT Thai literary classics constitute an important medium for the interaction of Southeast Asian multicultural ...
Wanjie Yang, Qian Zhang
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Nierozróżniający wgląd w medytacji buddyzmu chan i jego wczesnobuddyjskie analogie

open access: yesArgument, 2017
Undifferentiating insight in the Chan Buddhist meditation and its early Buddhist analogies: In the paper a comparative analysis of Chan Buddhist meditation and the early Buddhist meditation has been conducted.
Kamil NOWAK
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